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shreevamsi
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Joined: 23 Feb 2006
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Location: Hyderabad,India
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Hi,
What is the basic difference between 'HIGH-VALUE' and 'LOW-VALUE' in cobol.
Some times in cobol, I have seen
MOVE LOW-VALUE TO WS-VARIABLE.
I remember i have seen HIGH-VALUE in the searches but never moved to a variable
What exactly are the both for??
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 Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: Re: What is HIGH-VALUE and LOW-VALUE in Cobol |
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dkalyan_c
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Joined: 06 Apr 2006
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HIGH-VALUE/HIGH-VALUES
Represents one or more occurrences of the character that has the
highest ordinal position in the collating sequence used. For the
EBCDIC collating sequence, the character is X'FF'; for other collating
sequences, the actual character used depends on the collating
sequence. HIGH-VALUE is treated as a nonnumeric literal.
LOW-VALUE/LOW-VALUES
Represents one or more occurrences of the character that has the
lowest ordinal position in the collating sequence used. For the
EBCDIC collating sequence, the character is X'00'; for other collating
sequences, the actual character used depends on the collating
sequence. LOW-VALUE is treated as a nonnumeric literal. |
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dkalyan_c
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U CANNOT MOVE LOW OR HIGH VALUES TO "PIC 9" FIELD
CAN MOVE ONLY TO "PIC X" FIELD
MOVE LOW-VALUE TO WS-VARIABLE-1.
MOVE HIGH-VALUE TO WS-VARIABLE-2.
RESULT:
WS-VARIABLE-1= x'0000'
WS-VARIABLE-2= x'0000' |
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Raja Suman Chowdary
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| Can anyone explain this in detail with examples? I didn't understand the explanation posted in the forum previously.. |
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Anuj D.
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Joined: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 1638
Location: Mumbai, India
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Hi,
There are occasions when you may wish to set a variable to an infinitely high or infinitely low number. For example, suppose you were merging two files on surnames as the primary key:
*in data division FILE SECTION
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FD FILE-1.
01 RECORD-1.
03 IN-NAME-1 PIC X(20).
03 FILLER PIC X(50).
FD MERGE-FILE.
01 RECORD-OUT PIC X(70).
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PERFORM WITH TEST AFTER EOF-FLAG-1 AND EOF-FLAG-2 |
*loop until each file has been read to completion
*read each file
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READ FILE-1
AT END SET EOF-FLAG-1 TO TRUE
MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO IN-NAME-1
END-READ
READ FILE-2
AT END SET EOF-FLAG-2 TO TRUE
MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO IN-NAME-2
END-READ |
*sort the records (assuming no 2 names are the same)
*on ascending surname
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IF IN-NAME-1 IS < IN-NAME-2 THEN
WRITE RECORD-OUT FROM RECORD-1
ELSE
WRITE RECORD-OUT FROM RECORD-2
END-IF
END-PERFORM |
In this example, when IN-NAME-1 is less than IN-NAME-2 (based on their ASCII values e.g. A < B etc..) then the FILE-1 record (RECORD-1) is written to the merge file (RECORD-OUT). One of FILE-1 and FILE-2 will come to an end before the other so the completed file has its IN-NAME- value set to constant that will ALWAYS be greater than the IN-NAME- value still being read, ensuring all remain files are written to the merge file. This is done with the lines: MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO IN-NAME-1 and MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO IN-NAME-2
It is important to note that HIGH-VALUES and LOW-VALUES are ALPHANUMERIC in type, so you can't set numerically defined variables to this type (you would have to implicitly redefine the variable first). This is an annoying quirk of COBOL. |
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